On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:20 PM, r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> wrote:
> Ahh so close. I set the alarm for 3 seconds and it raises the exception, > but only after spending 25 seconds seemingly blocked in gethostbyname. > > Here's a snippet, just in case I'm doing it wrong!... > > If you're doing many lookups prior to connecting to the machines or otherwise processing the information, you can create a very simple thread class to perform just the lookup, store the threads in a list, and poll the threads in the list so you can deal with the ones that finish first before moving on to the remaining ones. You'll still have a 25 second wait for the last ones to finish, but you can get the majority of the work done earlier than you would with a single-thread program. -- Computers are like air conditioners... They quit working when you open Windows.
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